The Pro Tour this past weekend shook up the Twitterverse with the emergence of several new teams, as well as a breakout performance by the Canadians. Reuben Bresler, your host on The Newsening, drops in this week.
“How important is a nail?” Mike Flores sets up some context in order to respond to those that disagree with his admonition from last week’s article to “never” play The Rock.
Find out how it’s possible to Top 8 your first Pro Tour with Josh Cho’s account of how he made it to third place at PT Avacyn Restored with the help of his testing group, Team SCG Blue.
Need some sideboarding help for your next SCG Open Series event? Carsten Kotter goes over some fundamentals of sideboarding so that you will be better prepared to do it successfully in Orlando this weekend.
Brian Kibler details where his team went wrong during the testing process for Block Constructed at Pro Tour Avacyn Restored. Find out why he’s still excited about playing the format at GP Anaheim in a couple weeks.
Fresh off Pro Tour Avacyn Restored, Brad Nelson tells you how he came to realize that metagaming is as important in Limited as Constructed and how to draft black in Avacyn Restored (since no one else wants to).
Although Commander and Standard are his favorite formats, Bennie Smith also talks about Draft today after participating in his first Avacyn Restored draft. Prepare for SCG Open Series: Orlando!
Pro Tour Avacyn Restored competitor and Team SCG Blue member Todd Anderson takes you through the team’s testing process for Block Constructed and Draft and how he performed at the tournament.
Read what Jonathan "Watchwolf92" Sukenik thinks about the Block Constructed decks he saw from Pro Tour Avacyn Restored after having played the format on Magic Online regularly since Innistrad was released.
Reflecting on his performance at Pro Tour Avacyn Restored, GerryT explains why he thinks he does poorly at Pro Tours in general and what he believes he and others can do to improve their results at tournaments.
Sheldon Menery has another Commander play-by-play for you, this time with his The Mimeoplasm deck. Read exactly how the game played out to see if you’d like to try the deck yourself.
Sam Black did it again: the deck he helped design for Team SCG Black, Bant Hexproof, put two people in the Top 8 at Pro Tour Avacyn Restored. Get an inside look at how this deck was put together at the last minute.
Patrick Chapin discusses the two hottest decks from PT Avacyn Restored, Bant Hexproof and U/W Control with miracles, and how they could be adapted in Standard for this weekend’s SCG Open Series in Orlando.
Between Angels, Soldiers, Spirits, and Wolves, tokens abound in today’s Standard. JDB takes a look at the tokens players use and offers a food-for-thought Tokens decklist.
